Word: loyal
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Through transfers and discharges of known leftists, Portugal's army, which last summer was an almost unmanageable stronghold of revolutionary ardor, has been transformed into a relatively disciplined force loyal to Pinheiro de Azevedo's government. Efforts to nationalize many of Portugal's industries and to carry out a sweeping land-reform program have virtually stopped. There have been almost nightly bombings of local Communist and leftist headquarters in northern Portugal. Conservative farmers in the north who have joined in the new Confederation of Farmers plan to make their angry voices heard in elections for the legislature...
...rule was, in our philosophy of athletics here, completely ridiculous," Loyal Park, coach of the varsity baseball and freshman football teams, said yesterday. "We're glad we can play all the people we want...
...that the game was one of her father's ways of teaching his children that everything the government did was "completely misguided if not deliberately wicked." The game also indicates the degree of pleasure -both principled and perverse-that Russell derived from his nearly lifelong role as the loyal opposition to all forms of authority...
...bloodless "pocket rebellion" by the air force began during the week be fore Christmas, when Brigadier General Héctor Luis Fautario, the air force commander, arrived at one of Buenos Aires' airports to fly to Córdoba. Fautario, an unpopular general unswervingly loyal to President Perón, was detained by high-ranking fellow officers, who thereupon declared a rebellion. Military leaders, apparently sharing the general dislike of Fautario, quickly acceded to one of the rebels' demands and dismissed him. But Fautario's successor, Brigadier General Orlando Ramon Agosti, was unsympathetic to the rebels...
...impasse between the government and the air force rebels continued for four days. In a halfhearted show of determination, rebel planes-mostly prop trainers from Morón air force base outside Buenos Aires-attracted the curiosity of Christmas shoppers by making a few low passes over the city. Loyal air force fighter-bombers strafed some parked planes at Moron, destroying a few but taking no lives. After other commanders convinced him that the army was not ready to join the uprising, the leader of the air force coup, Brigadier General Jesus Orlando Capellini, quietly "submitted to higher air force...